Yesterday I had a random thought about the time I worked in a restaurant and overheard a customer telling a friend of his that his parents won the 'Set For Life' lottery and I remember being half-impressed, but also half jealous. How selfish of me! I was slaving away in the summer heat, pouring drinks, running food, all for the meagre sum of minimum wage and the odd tip. Why couldn't it be me? They would probably waste it all away. Set for life too, you can't even waste it away - you just get paid again the next month!
Despite these selfish thoughts, I carried on working away, only dreaming of ever seeing such a sum in my savings, let alone seeing a number that large drop into my bank account month after month. Nevertheless, I acted on my random thought of the day and decided to buy two lines on the 'Set For Life' lottery, with the chance to win £10,000 per month for 30 years. Got to be in it to win it, right?
Alas, as you do when you buy a ticket in the lottery - you dream of everything you'd do with the money. I think about how I could save it and pretty much move to Lithuania straight away. I'd put some into some long-term investment accounts because naturally for me, the money would run out when I'm 59 (assuming I won) so although I'd be set until then, if I wasn't careful I wouldn't quite be "set for life."
I do sometimes wonder if my luck has ran out though. Back in my university days I remember playing online poker where I won a hand worth something like £0.30 on cash Texas Hold'em with a Royal Flush. I did this twice in the space of weeks and, upon googling the odds of getting a Royal Flush, I've since realised I have most definitely used up a lifetime worth of luck. To get one, you need odds of 1/649,739... to get this twice in the space of weeks... well who knows?!
So I'm waiting for tomorrow evening, when the numbers get pulled and no doubt I will be filled with the same disappointment that 99.99% of lottery players get when they don't win big and I'll move on and hopefully be less inclined to act on instantaneous thoughts in future.
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